Vibrant Velvet
#bb0088
A magenta that is about as vivid as sRGB can show at this lightness. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#bb0088
RGB
187, 0, 136
OKLCh
52.8% 0.225 345.0°
CIELAB (D50)
42.1, 69.3, -20.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 77.7; on black, Lc -24.0. The sign is the polarity, which the WCAG ratio discards.
- Built into an eleven-step scale, 10 of the 10 adjacent pairs stay ΔE00 2 apart — see the ramp.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 29.2 and 27.0 and 67.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.05:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.47:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.05:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#bb0088
protanopia
#434389 · ΔE00 29.2
deuteranopia
#6a6a85 · ΔE00 27.0
tritanopia
#888800 · ΔE00 67.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLoulou’s Purple at ΔE00 2.093: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Loulou’s PurpleΔE00 2.093 · #bb2288
- King’s Plum PieΔE00 2.76 · #b3107a
- Rrosy-Fingered DawnΔE00 3.11 · #c11c84
- Jealous JellyfishΔE00 3.409 · #bb0099
- Blissful BerryΔE00 3.599 · #aa1188
- FandangoΔE00 3.638 · #b53389
- Fuchsia FlourishΔE00 3.646 · #bb2299
- Eye Popping CherryΔE00 3.722 · #bb0077
- Fabric of LoveΔE00 3.802 · #aa1177
- Medium Violet RedΔE00 3.896 · #c71585
- Magneto’s MagentaΔE00 3.99 · #aa1d8e
- Katy BerryΔE00 4.014 · #aa0077
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.